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“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne

A slight amendment to Harriet van Horne's quote.

Welcome to KayTea’s Cakes, an idea that has been in my mind for quite some time now which has finally emerged into reality.

If you’re reading this then we definitely have something in common and by no means am I a magician but I’m guessing that you like…CAKES…am I right? Well if I am then hopefully you’ll keep reading about my experiments, events and ideas all to do with cake.

I’m still learning – this is a journey – I welcome the company. Like the famous quote says,

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There is nothing better than a cup of tea, a slice of cake (or two) and a great book.

It’s been quite a number of months since I held the last Clandestine Cake Club – Bounds Green and Bowes Park group, so yesterday was the first meet of more regular meetings. I think a six to eight week gap in between meetings is quite realistic right!?!
The venue this time was a wonderful book shop in Wood Green called The Big Green Book Shop; which has been open now for five years and is very popular among the locals in ‘the know’. The reason I say this, is because many people have said, ‘I didn’t know there was a bookshop there!?!’ Well one of my aims when holding a Clandestine Cake Club meeting is to promote local businesses to new customers. Tick.
Simon and Tim, the owners of Big Green Bookshop, kindly advertised The Clandestine Cake Club on the local community website which brought in a few extra people, which was great. At one point there were 23 people in total milling around eating cake, discussing cake and browsing books. This sounds like a great Sunday afternoon in my opinion.

The theme this time was ‘Sweet Reads’ for obvious reasons. Each baker was asked to bake a cake which represented a book of their choice. There were 14 scrumptious cakes in total including one batch of ring shaped Ginger Shortbread biscuits. Sorry Lynn! I apologise because one of the rules of the Clandestine Cake Club – NO cupcakes, Muffins, Brownies, Cookies, Pies or Tarts.

The cakes were as follows:
Rainbow Apple and Caterpillar cake- inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Marble Cake – inspired by The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Sticky Ginger Cake –inspired by The Gingerbread Man – Classic Fairytale
Ginger Cake – inspired by The Gingerbread Man – Classic Fairytale
Hazelnut and Blackberry Cake – inspired by Brambly Hedge
Gorilla Cake with a banana flavour – inspired by The Gorilla by Anthony Browne
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich cake – inspired by a Bill Bryson title
Ginger Shortbread biscuits – inspired by The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
St. Clements Cake – inspired by Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Good & Evil Mud Pie – Mississippi Mud Pie – inspired by The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The Wizard of Oz Cake
Lavender and Lemon Cake
and two Coconut Cakes!

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As you can imagine I didn’t get to taste all the cakes but the ones I did were truly delicious.
Many thanks to all the bakers that attended yesterday, it really was a great afternoon. Secondly a warm welcome to all the new members and guests; please remember to officially join the Clandestine Cake Club website to stay informed of future events.
Last but not least, a HUGE thanks to Tara who was working yesterday at Big Green Bookshop and Simon and Tim for agreeing to host the event at their wonderful shop.